way. what s interesting here is that it puts a little bit of additional pressure on judge canon. if she s at all inclined to slow walk this prosecution, she may find herself in the embarrassing position of having state judges want to move in front of her. it is 2:00 p.m. in new york city. also in miami. thank you for staying with us for our special coverage. president trump has just arrived at the miami federal courthouse where he will voluntarily surrender then be arrested on 37 counts on the alleged mishanding of classified documents. mr. trump will be represented at today s proceedings by attorneys and will appear alongside his personal aide and co-defendant, walt nauta. a former navy military aide who was his aide in the white house. went with him and became a private citizen. accused of helping donald trump move boxes of documents. we expect mr. trump to enter a not guilty plea. he s said that before u.s. magistrate judge john goodman. he said he would. still has tim
one-man professional firing squad targeting lifelong republican chris krebs. krebs, of course, declared the election, quote, the most secure in american history that will cost him his job. the firing of the top expert has reportedly come under scrutiny by special counsel jack smith as he investigating every piece of the trump coup plot. and the new york times reports, the team led is asking witnesses about the events surrounding the firing of chris krebs. he was the top official in the 2020 election. mr. krebs selection that the election was secure with the assertion that it was, quote, a fraud on the american people. the special counsel reportedly issud subpoenas two weeks ago to staff members in the trump white house. a key focus for jack smith according to the times. the investigators appear focused on trump s state of mind around the firing of mr. krebs. as well as on establishing a time line of events leading up to the attack on the capitol by a pro-trump mob on janu
during these extraordinary times. we are grateful. the beat with ari melber starts right now hi, ari. thanks, nicolle welcome to the beat. i m ari melber we are tracking several stories, including maya wylie we begin with the escalating heat on defendant donald trump the nation watched as he came to new york for the first criminal arraignment of his life, a legal requirement, not a choice. trump had to sit in court for this unusually long i rainment which included a rare rebuke by the judge for threats he had been making. those threats part of a second civil case also filed this week by the d.a. dealing with the clash of some house republicans. here s the news right now. today donald trump is back in new york again and again under court order. these are not trips that he chose. they have been forced on him by the law and how often he is on allegedly, under the allegations, the wrong side of the law. if you re trying to keep track or it seems like this stuff is happening
stories we re watching today the first is joe biden heading to monterey park, california the president will deliver remarks on gun safety. we are also following a developing situation out of ukraine involving a u.s. intelligence aircraft that was forced down by russian war planes but we start today with the race to the bottom in the republic primary the leading contenders for the presidential nomination making clear that they will not stand with the fledgeling democracy. a statement from ron desantis in response to a questionnaire than none other than fox news and america s most prominent putin defender tucker carlson reads in quote, while the u.s. has many vital national interests, securing our borders, addressing the crisis of readiness within our military, achieving energy security and independence and checking the economic, cultural, and military power of the chinese communist party, becoming further entangled in a territorial dispute between ukraine and russia is not
to donald trump s lawsuit requesting that a special master review documents retrieved from his palm beach home. donald trump sued the justice department last week to stop the review of those documents, in a move many are seeing as a delay tactic. in that lawsuit, trump s lawyers claim that he always gave the government complete cooperation. the justice department has until midnight tonight to respond to those claims, and by all accounts they sure have a lot to say. yesterday, the department asked the judge permission to go beyond 20 page filing limit, and submit a 40-page response. 14 pages to trump s lawsuit. the government said it needed the extra pages to, quote, adequately address the legal and factual issues raised by trump s motion. again, that filing can come literally any moment now. that doj filing could potentially shed more light on the government s criminal investigation, and will no doubt serve as a 40-page rebuttal to donald trump s claims of complete cooperatio